Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons

Volume compiles studies of the production and reproduction of market-supporting social infrastructures through the prism of knowledge commons.

Erwin Dekker (Edited by), Pavel Kucha? (Edited by)

9781108483599, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 December 2021

300 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.571 kg

Knowledge commons facilitate voluntary private interactions in markets and societies. These shared pools of knowledge consist of intellectual and legal infrastructures that both enable and constrain private initiatives. This volume brings together theoretical and empirical approaches that develop and apply the Governing Knowledge Commons framework to the evolution of various kinds of shared knowledge structures that underpin exchanges of goods, services, and ideas. Chapters offer vivid and illuminating case studies that illustrate this conceptual framework. How did pooling scientific knowledge enable the Industrial Revolution? How do social networks underpin the credit system enabling the Agra footwear market? How did the market category Scotch whisky emerge and who has access to it? What is the potential of blockchain-ledgers as shared knowledge repositories? This volume demonstrates the importance of shared knowledge in modern society.

Introduction. Governing markets as knowledge commons Erwin Dekker and Pavel Kucha?
1. The contribution good as the foundation of the industrial revolution Terence Kealey and Martin Ricketts
2. On the social evolution of knowledge Renée Prendergast
3. Individual sovereignty and coproduction of knowledge governance Edward J. López
4. Common sense commons: the case of commonsensical social norms Brett Frischmann
5. Conventions as shared cognitive infrastructures Young Back Choi
6. Property rights, knowledge commons, and blockchain governance Darcy W. E. Allen, Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, and Jason Potts
7. Knowledge commons, social infrastructures, and informal markets: the case of informal trade credit in India Yugank Goyal
8. Entrepreneurship and governance in the Scotch whisky knowledge commons Michelle Albert Vachris and Kyle Vachris
9. Trolling in the deep: managing transgressive content on online platforms as a commons Julien Gradoz and Raphaël Raux
10. Crowdfunding the Queer Museum: a polycentric identity quarrel Carolina Dalla Chiesa
11. Understanding different qualities of the knowledge commons in contemporary cities Youn Sun Won and Arjo Klamer.

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], International economic & trade law [LBBM], Economic history [KCZ], Economic systems & structures [KCS]